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Subject: Installing WinXP on a laptop with no floppy or CD-ROM

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Matt

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Date Posted: 05:40:42 10/25/03 Sat

Ok, I think of myself as pretty intelligent, but this is one puzzle i cannot figure out. A friend wants to reinstall windows on his IBM Thinkpad i-series s30... its a notebook with no internal media drives... he formatted... hoping that we could figure out a way to install windows using my laptop and then put the hard drive back into his computer, or something of the sort... this so far has not worked because my laptop is old and does not support hard drives over 8.4 GB (his being 20GB). I've tried just dumping the files from several boot disks to his drive using my 2.5" usb drive case. All these attempts have come up with the error NTLDR missing - when i add that file from my system his system does NOTHING, it just keeps restarting in a loop. I also tried making a mirror image of my current drive with win2k. That booted but bluescreened at startup, no idea why. the one time we did get the computer to boot with a command prompt (i don't remember how it was done anymore) we tried to run the setup files winxp but we were given the error "This program cannot run in MS-DOS mode" (we had copied the files from the xp install cd directly to the hard drive) Anyone have any suggestions? We really need some help here
~Matt

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